Hypertext Webster Gateway: "smouldering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smoldering \Smol"der*ing\, Smouldering \Smoul"der*ing\, a.
Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break
and blaze. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smolder \Smol"der\, Smoulder \Smoul"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Smoldered}or {Smouldered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smoldering} or
{Smouldering}.] [OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. sm["o]len,
smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. {Smell}.]
1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow
and supressed combustion.
The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.
--Spenser.
2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity;
to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
smouldering
adj 1: showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone
was...conversational although...her eyes were
smoldering"- James Hensel [syn: {smoldering}]
2: burning slowly without flame; "smoldering embers" [syn: {smoldering}]
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